International College

Motion Picture and Television, MFA, Academy of Art University

CEO, Studio KAY (2022 ~ Present)

Vice President, Producer, Lix Digital Studio, Beijing
CEO, Executive Producer, Max E&C Inc.
Producer, Teddyworks

2024 한국융합신호처리 학회(KICSP) Vol. 25, “Creating and Utilization of Virtual Human via Facial Capturing based on Photogrammetry”
2022 [Give Them:Secret of the Lost] Executive Producer (Korean Short Film)
2020 [Signal] VFX Coordinator (Japanese Feature Film)
2019 [Night Restaurant] Business Manager (Chinese Feature Film)
2018 [Chang Vo Cua Em] Executive Producer (Vietnamese Feature Film)
2013 [Konggane] Executive Producer (Korean Feature Film)
2012 [Hello, Everyone!] Producer (Korean Feature Film)
2010 [Sayonara Itsuka] Producer (Japanese/Korean Feature Film)

▪ [Give Them:Secret of the Lost]
(1). Venice Shorts (2024) - Official Selection
(2). Canne World Film Festival (2024) - Best Asian Film
(3). Korea International Short Film Festival (2024) - Best Short Film Finalist
(4). New York Independent Cinema Awards (2024) - Official Selection
(5). Incheon International Short Film Festival (2024) - Best Director Nominee / Best Short Film
(6). Toronto Shorts Film Festival (2024) - Nominee
(7). Chicago Indie Film Festival (2024) - Nominee
(8). Boston Indie Film Festival (2024) - Nominee
(9). New Media Film Festival (2024) - Nominee
(10). Tokyo International Cinema Awards (2024) - Nominee
(11). Seattle Film Festival (2024) - Official Selection
(12). Near Nazareth Festival(2024)-Semi Finalist

▪ [Chang Vo Cua Em] - Feature Film. People’s Choice Award for Vietnamese Film, 2018 Hanoi International Film Festival
(#1 ranked Box office record 2018, #5 ranked Box office record in Vietnamese film history)
▪ [Chang Vo Cua Em] Best feature film, Best director, Best supporting actress @ Golden Kite Award 2019
▪ [Chocolate and Chess] A film of month, Independent filmmaker’s festival, San Francisco, 2001
▪ [Why do you wanna take mine?]Starring MC Hammer, Best Music Video, Academy of Art University Film Festival, 2000

1. Creating and Developing Storytelling of Narrative Structure
2. Analysis and research on the change and effect of meaning when delivering a story using various film languages
3. The effect of editing on storytelling

2022 Ph. D in Visual Contents, Dongseo University, Busan, Korea
2017 M.A in Visual Contents Dongseo University, Busan, Korea
2015 B.A in Digital Contents, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law and Dongseo University, Wuhan, China

Teaching Assistant, Dongseo University, 2016 - 2020
Project Manager, Dongseo University (DEVAR Creative Convergence Diocese and Puzzle-based AR Game), 2020 -
Project Manager, Dongseo University (Car Configurator and Virtual Actor Production for Web-based Advertising Video Production), 2021 -

2021 Future of Information and Communication Conference (FICC), ‘Visual Quality Comparison of Ocean Wave Effects Produced by Houdini in the Engine’
2021 5th SmartCom 2021, ‘Visual Quality Comparison of Ocean Wave Effects at Different Camera Distance’
2019 12th International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology (ICCSIT 2019), ‘Visual Restoration of Ocean Wave Effects Produced by Houdini in the Engine’
2019 International Conference on Cultural Technology (ICCT 2019), ‘Analysis of Brittle Fracture Special Effects in SF Films by Period’
2018 International Conference on Cultural Technology (ICCT 2018), ‘Realization of Realistic Wave Effect in Houdini under the Overlooking Angle’
2018 The Korea Contents Society, ‘The Production of Fracture Effects and 360-Degree Panorama Display’, 최우수논문상
2017 The 2nd International Conference on Cultural Technology (ICCT 2017), ‘A Method for Procedural Building Destruction from Houdini to UE4’, Excellent Paper Award
2017 International Conference on Cultural Technology, ‘Directorial Features of the Elements of Peking opera used in Animation’
2016 Korea Digital Design Council, ‘The Sociocultural Meaning Implemented in the Design Transformation of the Sun WuKong Animation Character - Mainly with Analysis on 14 Chinese Sun WuKong Animation films’

2003 BA in Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Dongguk University
2014 MFA in Department of Film and Digital Media, Graduated School of Digital Image and Contents, Dongguk University
2018 ABD, DFA in Department of Film and Digital Media, Graduated School of Digital Image and Contents, Dongguk University

2019, Movie, 72th Cannes Film Festival (Non-Competitive short Film), (Invited)
2017, Movie, 18th Jeonju International Film Festival (Invited), 15th AISFF (Invited)
2014, Movie, 11th SIAFF (Invited)

2021 Movie & YG Ent. OTT Drama Series DOP
2020 Netflix Movie DOP
2019 tvN Drama Series DOP
2018 JTBC Drama Series DOP
2017 Movie DOP

Applied Media Aesthetics and Sociocultural Theory
The Effect of Sociocultural Phenomenon on Visual Storytelling: Attention Economy
Real-Time In-Camera VFX for Visual Storytelling: Virtual Production with Unreal Engine

2006~2008, M.F.A in Animation, Savannah College of Art and Design
1990~1994, B.S in Chemistry, Woosuk University in Korea

2021~Current , Integral Media : Art Director & Executive Producer
2015~2021 , JGVIPUBLIC : Lighting Artist, Art Director
2015, 25BROS : Lighting Artist
2014, Brand Story : VR 3D
2013~2014, MAD PICTURES : Lighting Artist
2012~2013, JS Communications and Media : 3D Artist and Design, USA
2012, Tigar Hair Studio : 3D Generalist, USA
2011, Aries Media Group : 3D Generalist, USA
2010, Syndrom Studio : Lighting Artist, USA
2009, Digital Domain : Texture Painter, USA
1997~2005, Image Sketch: 3D Generalist
1995~1997, SEKWANG MEDIA Inc: 3D Generalist
1994~1995, HWASANG-UM Multimedia Solution : 3D Generalist

- An Examination of Digital Texturing and Scenery Lighting for Instances of Aesthetic
Contributions to Development of Storytelling
- VR 3D Gallery
- VR The Spell of Dino

Texture and Lighting work, Matte Painting, Compositing, VR 3D

_2016: Master in Cinema - Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
_2004: Bachelor in Cinema - Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
_2003: ESEC, Paris (École Supérieure libre d’Études Cinématographiques)

_Since 2011: film director
_Since 2007: festival programmer
_Since 2004: film editor

Films as director

_2022: The Old, The New and The Other (15min, doc)
_2019: Welcome Home (5min, doc)
_2016: 음유시인 The Troubled Troubadour (23min, fiction, co-directed with Forest Ian Etsler, 24 festival selections including: Seoul Independent Film Festival, Mise-en-scene Short Film Festival, Jecheon International Music & Film Festival, Slamdance Film Festival…)
_2016: Tetsu Kono’s crazy routine (16min30, doc, co-directed with Forest Ian Etsler, 4 festival selections: Duhok International Film Festival, Korean American Film Festival in New York, Festival Film Dokumenter, Korea International Expat Film Festival)
_2014: 동心 One-minded (20min, fiction, co-directed with Forest Ian Etsler, 30 festival selections including: Seoul Independent Film Festival, São Paulo International Short Film Festival, Leeds International Film Festival, Slamdance Film Festival…)
_2014: The Urban Suite (12min30, doc, co-directed with Forest Ian Etsler, 9 festival selections including: Incheon Diaspora Film Festival, Interfilm Berlin, Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival, AmérAsia Montréal Film Festival…)
_2013: Working on ‘Work 2’ (13min25, doc)
_2013: Pas de deux (5min, videodance)
_2012: Flight Mode (7min30, fiction, co-directed with Nigel D’sa)
_2012: The Small Escape (2min15, fiction)
_2011: Paris Postcards (3x 1min, music videoclips)

Awards
_2019: 명예시민 Citizen of Honor, Busan Metropolitan City
_2016: Mitrani Award, FIPA Biarritz (for One-minded)
_2015: Gold Plaque Live Action Short, Chicago International Film Festival (for One-minded)

_Since 2012: Busan International Short Film Festival, programmer
_2021~2022: Jeonju International Short Film Festival, programmer
_2019~2022: Short Film Conference, board member
_2014~2020: Jeju French Film Festival, programmer
_2007~2018: Rencontres Cinématographiques de Cavaillon, workshop supervisor
_2014~2019: Seoul International Extreme-Short Image & Film Festival, selection committee
_2017~2019: Slamdance Film Festival, programmer
_2020: Shnit Worldwide Film Festival, selection committee
_Jury member: Seoul International Senior Film Festival 2019/2020, Minimalen Kortfilmfestival 2019, Kaohsiung Film Festival 2018, Shorts That Are Not Pants 2018, Bogota Short Film Festival 2020, Festival Regard - Saguenay International Short Film Festival 2021, Viddsee Juree Indonesia 2021, Seoul International Pride Film Festival 2021, Minikino Film Week - Bali International Short Film Festival 2023, Festival Film Dokumenter 2024

_2024.09: The Korean Journal of Digital Moving Image vol.21 n.2 (Online Video Analysis Essay as Post-Cinematic Praxis): https://www.kci.go.kr/kciportal/ci/sereArticleSearch/ciSereArtiView.kci?sereArticleSearchBean.artiId=ART003115383
_2022.01: Debaser magazine (BIFF founder's life celebrated in new biopic): https://debasermagazine.com/onscreen/jiseok-2022
_2021.12.31: Journal of Multimedia Information System vol.8 n.4 (3D Filmmaking for User-Selective UHD Stereoscopic Media System: A Case Study on the Film "The Old, The New and The Other"): http://www.jmis.org/archive/view_article?pid=jmis-8-4-277
_2021.01: Short Film Studies vol.11 n.1 (La Vis, dir. Didier Flamand)
_2019.09: L’Avant-Scène Cinéma n.665 (Peppermint Candy, dir. Lee Chang-dong)
_2019~2022: Busan Beat magazine, contributing writer
_since 2009: BullesDeCulture.com, regular writer

1996 Nuclear Engineering, Kyunghee University
2001 Academy of Art University, Compositing & VFX

2016~Current Digital Communication Studio ‘ReHatt’
2008~2011 Industrial Design, Hanseo University
2015~2016 KOIAN
2010 Korea Pavillion, 2010 Sanghai Expo
2014 samsung SHUD TV Main Screen
2015 Huawei P8 design Story
2016 Media Facade, Daegu Lotte Department
2020 Sangam ‘K-Live’

2010 Interactive 3D stereoscopic Dome for Planetarium
2015 Object Recognition based AR / VR
2015 Robot control system with image process

Interactive Media, Visual Effects, Astronomy, Destruction Simulation, Material Engineering

2001.01.02 ～ 2006.08.09 / Academy of Art University, USA
1996.03.02. ~ 1998.02.21 / 부산대학교

Ewha Woman's University - Music Technology
Fontys Hogeschool voor de Kunsten -Electronic Music Production

Ableton Live Certified Trainer
Avid Pro Tools Certified Trainer
Ableton Asia University Tour seminar Lecturer
Gearlounge Master class 2019 Ableton Live Workshop Lecturer
IMASTA FESTA Seoul 2018 Celemony Melodyne Demonstrator
IMASTA FESTA Seoul 2019 Celemony Melodyne Specialist Master Class Lecturer
Chungwoon University - Dept. of Music Professor
Kookje College - Dept. of Entertainment K-Pop Professor
Global Cyber University - Dept. of Entertainment Professor
Yonsei University Conservatory - Music Production, DJ Instructor

[MEME BOX] Collaboration - Electronic Live Performance Contents
[JBL] Collaboration - Electronic Live Performance Contents
[MBC Music x Everyone] 창작의신 출연
[Buzzbee TV] - Meris - Ottobit, Enzo Demonstration & Review
Spain Ibiza Hotel Puchet Pool Party DJ
Spain Ibiza Ocean Drive Looftop Party DJ
Spain Ibiza MO club DJ
Netherlands Tilburg Café de Lollipop Edu Garciez Guest DJ
China, Xiamen Electronic Live Performance @Shapowei Artzone
Korea Seoul Electronic Live Performance@SpaceXX
Korea Caisson24 Music Festival 2019 Electronic Live Performance
Korea Songdo Beer Festival 2019 Main DJ
Korea Gwangju Media Art Platform AMT Center - Media Performance

Master of Music Composition, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA - 1993-1994
Bachelor of Music Performance, Illinois Wesleyan, University, Bloomington, IL, USA - 1988-1992

Composer / Orchestrator / Arranger / Transcriptionist

2021 - Liquid Arts Network — Empty Venue 2 & 3 / Original music scoring to online visual arts exhibitions
2012 - Ari Ari: The Korean Cinema (dir. Heo Chul) — Busan International Film Festival / Original string orchestrations
1995 to 2000 - Various freelance work in Chicago area

Harrison Mixbus, Cubase, Logic, Bandlab, GarageBand, Audacity(digital audio recording/editing software)
Pure Data (programming language for audio)
Final Cut Pro, ShotCut (video editing)
Finale (music notation/engraving)
OBS (online streaming suite)

Trumpet, guitars, electric bass, keyboards, piano, electronics (samplers, audio gear, etc.)

Jazz (incl. bebop, modern and early styles), Reggae, Afropop, Rock, Punk, Blues, Latin, Avant garde, Ambient, Classical, Music Theatre, Folk, Electronic and others

B.A in Digital Contents, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law and Dongseo University 2013
M.A in Visual Contents Dongseo University, Busan, 2016
Ph. D Certificate of Completion in Visual Contents, Dongseo University, Busan, 2018

Lighting & Rendering Artist, Animotion, Dongseo University,2012-2013
3D Artist, Retro Media Company, Seoul, 2015-2017
Lighting & Look-Dev Leader, Macrograph, Busan, 2017-2019
Part-time lecturer, Dongseo University, Busan,2017-2019
Researcher, Arcade Game Regional Innovation Center, 2019-2020

2014 - 10th Busan International Exhibition of Film Animation Creation, Excellent Works Award,
2014 - International Conference on Convergence Contents, Artwork Exhibition Post,
2015 - Asia Digital Arts and Design Association, ‘Optimisation Techniques for Creating Fur Effects of CG Animal Characters’,
2016 - Asia Digital Arts and Design Association, ‘Phased Expression Technique for Realistic Embodiment of Tiger Fur’,
2017 - International Conference on Cultural Technology, ‘The Digital Actor Hologram Performance Project: Achieving the Photorealistic Facial Skin and Rendering’,
2017 - International Association for Convergence Science & Technology, ‘Character Lighting Pipeline in 360º Live Action VR Video Using Relighting‘,
2018 - The Korea Contents Association, ‘Facial animation production method based on depth images‘,
2018 - The Korea Contents Association , ‘Photoscan method for Achieving the Photorealistic Facial Modeling and Rendering‘,
2019 - IEEE Conference on Graphics and Media(GAME2019), ‘Application of Game Engine PBR for Production of Live action content‘,

- NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Film and Television

- 2021 Korean Academy Award Nominee (Blue Dragon Film Awards)
- 200+ festival selections and winner of 80+ Awards (including Korea’s Big Three: Busan, Jeonju, and Bucheon)
- Writer/Director of commercials, music videos, series and films for Disney, Warner Music, SM Entertainment, JYP Entertainment, Mystic Story, Luma Pictures, and more

WRITER/DIRECTOR
2024-2025, MISAMO: Once More
- Three-part YouTube docuseries following MISAMO as they prepare for their second mini album, HAUTE COUTURE
2023, NCT 127: The Lost Boys
- Four-part Disney+ original series on the rise of the global K-pop sensation NCT 127
2020, Georgia
- Short film featured in The New Yorker Screening Room Video Series
- 120+ festivals and 60+ awards, including Best Short Film at both the Busan International Film Festival and Busan International Short Film Festival
- Ranked 6th on Screen Rant’s “10 Best Short Films Ever Made, According to Letterboxd”
2018, Pepper
- Lexus Shorts finalist with 30+ festival screenings and 10+ awards

PRODUCER
2022, Boblo Boats: A Detroit Ferry Tale
- A PBS documentary feature on Detroit's beloved "Boblo Boats"
2021, Cut
- Short film selected for the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, with 20+ festival screenings and 5 awards